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Yankeeing

Yankeeing is the present participle and gerund of Yankee.

Meaning of Yankee

Verb

Yankee (third-person singular simple present Yankees, present participle Yankeeing, simple past and past participle Yankeed)

  1. (Canada, US, dated, offensive, slang, sometimes) to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
    • Kentuckians reportedly regarded a Yankee “as a sort of Jesuit” because of his religious zeal, while in Illinois the term yankeed was synonymous with cheated.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

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Questions about Yankeeing

What is Yankeeing the present participle and gerund of?
Yankeeing is the present participle and gerund of Yankee.

Words near Yankeeing in the dictionary

  1. Yankeefication
  2. Yankeefied
  3. Yankeefies
  4. Yankeefy
  5. Yankeefying
  6. Yankeeing
  7. Yankeeism
  8. Yankeeisms
  9. Yankeeization
  10. Yankeeize
  11. Yankeeized

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